A commentary on apoplectic and paralytic affections : and on diseases connected with the subject.

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1721-1798.
Date:
1792
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    another part of the materia medica for affiftance; what therefore may be the event of acquiring a habit of giving them in all kinds of paralytic affections with- out difcrimination ? -If cantharides taken inwardly ever af- fiff, it muff be in the fpurious pally ; but, from what we have feen, we may doubt their efficacy ; and certainly fafer and more powerful deobftruents, according to the particular circumftances, may be chofen in their place. Dr. Mead *• recommended iffues in this iflues. difeafe, in preference to blitters, from Hippocrates, who, he fays, advifed them to be made in eight places; but upon turning to the paffage he refers to -f, if I am not miffaken, he treats not of the palfy, but on difeafes of the head in ge- neral from plethora, and advifes drains being made by the cautery ; “ two about “ the ears, two in the occiput, one on “ each fide the nofe about the angles of * Mon & Med. f Dc morb. lib. “ the